According to Ed Brodow in the book Negotiate with Confidence, Americans do business in a hurry. The following sentences will show businesspeople some ways to establish rapport, induce the other part to open first, explore the needs of the client, and then resist the first offer.
Bien, en primer lugar … – Well, first of all [...]
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Business Spanish
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Spanish Idiom September 29, 2009
“¡Paz a sus cenizas!” translates to “peace to his ashes!”. In English we’d say “may he rest in peace!”.
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C and Z Often Sound Alike
One way to mark yourself as someone who doesn’t care about pronunciation is to pronounce the Spanish z as it sounds in English. With the possible exception of some rare foreign words, the z of Spanish never has the sound in English. In fact, it has the same pronunciation as c when the c comes [...]
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French difficulties: Gender patterns
French gender is a constant headache for many students of French. There’s no simple way to know the gender of every noun other than just learning the gender with each word. There are, however, some patterns in suffixes and word endings – certain endings tend to indicate masculine nouns, while other endings favor feminine nouns. [...]
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Writing a Letter in French
Do you ever need to write a letter in French either for work, school or pleasure? Well, today, I’m going to try to help you out a bit with this task. First, let’s talk about a formal/business letter. Let’s say you need to write a letter to a company asking for information. You can put [...]